Question

write an article on India's Olympic dream ​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Why does a country of a billion-plus have so little to show for itself at the Olympics? There are more questions than answers to this long-pending drought our country has been going through. The answers are discussed in Dreams of a Billion in which Boria Majumdar and Nalin Mehta take us back and forth in India’s journey at Olympics.

As we gear up for the 2020 Tokyo Games, the writers give the reader an inside view of what goes on backstage when Indians compete in the biggest sporting event.

Dreams of a Billion — India and the Olympic Games is an important piece of work in a country where there is very little literature about Olympic sports. From bringing to the fore tales of heroic triumphs at the Olympic and Paralympic Games to throwing light on what it takes to compete with the best in the world, the first part of Dreams of a Billion traces the journey of how these athletes — Abhinav Bindra, M C Mary Kom and PV Sindhu — became sporting icons of the country. In the latter half of the book, tales from India’s early Olympic history and the road ahead finds a place. For instance, the book tells us how India was once a side to reckon with at least in hockey, but is nowhere now in the podium picture.